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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by abbeycial: 3:05pm On Feb 20, 2015
ayusco85:
Breaking news....Linda Thomas, the lady who usually say you have insufficient balance to make this call (MTN) is dead you can now Enjoy free calls to all network.

lazy chap, I. hope dats an expensive joke?if not then I humbly declare u heartless
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by successking: 3:14pm On Feb 20, 2015
Today France is linked to BH HALLELUIAH, waiting for US link to be announced. God will surely expose them!

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by ddefoe: 3:17pm On Feb 20, 2015
This story must be taken in context that france has over 5 Million muslims of North Africa and Middle East Origin many of whom has gone to fight in Syria,Iraq,Afghanistan and even in Mali etcm it does not necessarily means that the french govt or other European countries that has these extremist element within their population are sponsoring terorism.

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by holyokoto(m): 3:35pm On Feb 20, 2015
Omexonomy:
What more can i say when the europeans have sworn to break nigeria into pieces.
Until a big Fish from APC is been caught and paraded along side with shecawu i reserve my comment

Did you read the News at all?
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by 100Cents: 3:36pm On Feb 20, 2015
RockMaxi:


You mind those puppets. When France was busy assisting them in taking the Bakassi Pennisula their sovereignity and independence were not considered.

One will always wonder why it was only France's AFP that have the access to Bokoharam videos. A question that have remained unanswered until now.


France hates Nigeria.

They hate us for our potentials.

Thank God it was their colony that caught the fucking French terrorists. It would have been a diplomatic row if NA caught the terrorists. But trust our boys, they would have been suya by now.

Shoot them in the head..

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by Akpan107(m): 3:36pm On Feb 20, 2015
seunfly:
I hope the useless DSSA can see and swallow the shame after all the attempt of link BH with Buhari, Sanusi, APC and every body that did not buy into this government. I also wish the gullible supporters of this administration who act like an illiterate can stop shouting Buhari and tell their beloved clueless government to do his best to fight the menance rather than playing politic with lives and security of this nation.
Only time shall tell...

Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) National Leader, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has criticised the declaration of state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States and the subsequent military offensive against the Boko Haram Islamic sect.
Buhari, who featured on the “Guest of the Week,” a Hausa programme of the Kaduna-based Liberty Radio, yesterday said the federal government’s action was a gross injustice against the north. According to him, unlike the special treatment the federal government gave to the Niger Delta militants, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished.
He said he was not in support of the declaration of state of emergency in the three north-eastern states because President Goodluck Jonathan had failed from the outset in addressing the security situation in the country. Besides, Buhari added that the security challenges facing the country started in the Niger Delta region where he alleged that politicians desperate to retain their positions as governors recruited youths and armed them to enable them win elections by force.
According to Buhari, who fielded questions in Hausa language before the English version of the programme, “What is responsible for the security situation in the country was caused by the activities of Niger Delta militants. “Every Nigerian that is familiar with what happened knows this. The Niger Delta militants started it all. What happened is that the governors of the Niger Delta region at that time wanted to win their elections, so they recruited the youths and gave them guns and bullets and used them against their opponents to win elections by force.
“After the elections were over, they asked the boys to return the guns, the boys refused to return the guns. Because of that, the allowance that was being given to the youths by the governors during that time was stopped. “The youths resorted to kidnapping oil workers and were collecting dollars as ransom. Now a boy of 18 to 20 years was getting about $500 in a week, why will he go to school and spend 20 years to study and then come back and get employed by government to be paid N100,000 a month; that is if he is lucky to get employment? “So kidnapping became very rampant in the south-south and the south-east. They kidnapped people and were collecting money.
“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf, started his militancy and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police. “The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him,
his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today.
“You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua sent an airplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty.
“They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north are being killed and their houses demolished. They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice.” Buhari also explained why he joined politics after his release from detention by former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, saying that his close associates and those who knew him very well convinced him to join partisan politics. He said those who knew him, knew that he took on positions of responsibility without begging anyone for appointments.
“I was a military governor in a state that has been divided into six states today; I was minister of petroleum for four years and six months. I was a military head of state. But because these people know how I live my life, they were not coming to beg me for money. They were coming to ask me to comment on issues that affected the nation,” he added. He said further that the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 also shaped his attitude to politics.
“When I joined partisan politics in April 2002, in my ward in Daura, (Katsina State), they kept on coming. And then one significant thing at the global level happened, the Soviet Union collapsed.
“Out of the Soviet Union, there are now about 18 or 19 republics and that conclusively proved to me as an individual that the multi-party system is the best form of democracy, but with the big caveat that elections must be free and fair. That is how I arrived in CPC today, but first from APP to ANPP to CPC," he said. Buhari lamented that God has blessed Nigeria with human and natural resources, but “we have failed to organise ourselves”, stressing that one of
the problems bedevilling the country is bad leadership.

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by kay1one2(m): 3:37pm On Feb 20, 2015
rhythyson:



One word for you....IDIOTIC

Two for you; lame duck!
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by DECOtech(m): 3:40pm On Feb 20, 2015
Cameroun should just go ahead and execute the bastards.

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by kay1one2(m): 3:40pm On Feb 20, 2015
caselessogbuagu:
illiterate!

Spam bot!
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by holyokoto(m): 3:40pm On Feb 20, 2015
ayusco85:
Breaking news....Linda Thomas, the lady who usually say you have insufficient balance to make this call (MTN) is dead you can now Enjoy free calls to all network.

The will employ another person

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by 100Cents: 3:43pm On Feb 20, 2015
Prisca0ge:
So GEJ is paying mercenaries to come and kill us all.. Oya kill us all na!

Fake handle.

You just registered today and start talking thrash..

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by kay1one2(m): 3:44pm On Feb 20, 2015
VIPERVENOM:
and you guys will always dodge d fact dat boko haram started their uprising wen a muslim was president

Obasanjo is a muslim now?
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by Reference(m): 3:44pm On Feb 20, 2015
Means nothing. France has as big an islamist fuelled terror problem as Nigeria. For the purpose of investigation France will be more thorough but in view of the fact that these crimes were perpetuated in Africa justifies their trial here. So I feel the responsibilities should be shared.

No, I don't think the French government is involved. French citizens were taken hostage remember. And it is a huge, huge gamble. To prosecute a war against a country of 170million people is just, quite frankly economically suicidal. Even the US cannot take and hold Nigeria by force of arms alone.
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by 100Cents: 3:46pm On Feb 20, 2015
Zoharariel:
Now, where are the bastards condemning Omar Al-Barshar [President of Sudan] for saying CIA & Mossad are behind Boko Haram?

Some brainwashed fools who know next to nothing were also hailing the Christian Militants taken to Iraq to combat ISIS when in fact America and her Allies are the brain behind ISIS and every other Terrorist Organization causing chaos all over the Globe just to sustain their Global Destabilization Program .

We still haven't been told what the chad bound French weapons-laden Aircraft that was recently impounded in Kano was meant for after they tried implicating Russia.

Open your brains people and know what America and her Allies truly stand for!

Everyone was saying he was under the influence of drugs..

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by VIPERVENOM(m): 3:47pm On Feb 20, 2015
kay1one2:


Obasanjo is a muslim now?
was obasanjo president in 2009?
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by Rexyl(m): 3:50pm On Feb 20, 2015
knightsTempler:
If the story is true, i wouldn't be too surprised that French citizen are fighting along side Boko Haram. It is only a matter of time before the real sponsors of this ruthless jihadist movement show themselves.

*edited


all people and nations behind boko haram will be exposed. They shall all be put to shame.

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by Prisca0ge(f): 3:50pm On Feb 20, 2015
100Cents:


Fake handle.

You just registered today and start talking thrash..
e be like say rat die for your brain abi?
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by dasparrow: 3:53pm On Feb 20, 2015
@Post

Why am I not surprised? Jehovah God will expose all enemies of Nigeria and Africa one after the other.

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by kay1one2(m): 3:54pm On Feb 20, 2015
VIPERVENOM:
was obasanjo president in 2009?

So militancy began then or in 2002 with the sharia riots? That's what birth boko haram!

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by 100Cents: 3:55pm On Feb 20, 2015
major466:

Boko Haram started in 2002. They went violent in 2006-2007.

It started under Obasanjo and he kept quiet.

He knew when some northern States enthroned sharia and it was in his regime that US prophesied that Nigeria will break up in 2015.

I can remember vividly. It is a script.

But God raised JONTHAN like DAVID to save his people Israel ( Nigeria ) from the hands of the Philistines ( US ) and Saul ( OBJ )..

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by 100Cents: 3:57pm On Feb 20, 2015
Prisca0ge:
e be like say rat die for your brain abi?

No, Nah earthworm die for your privates..
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by major466(m): 3:59pm On Feb 20, 2015
100Cents:


It started under Obasanjo and he kept quiet.

He knew when some northern States enthroned sharia and it was in his regime that US prophesied that Nigeria will break up in 2015.

I can remember vividly. It is a script.

But God raised JONTHAN like DAVID to save his people Israel ( Nigeria ) from the hands of the Philistines ( US ) and Saul ( OBJ )..
The problem with some Nigerians is that they have short memories.

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by Prisca0ge(f): 4:02pm On Feb 20, 2015
100Cents:


No, Nah earthworm die for your privates..
May the devil showers blessings on you
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by Omexonomy: 4:05pm On Feb 20, 2015
holyokoto:


Did you read the News at all?
no i no sabi read
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by ayusco85(m): 4:11pm On Feb 20, 2015
abbeycial:


lazy chap, I. hope dats an expensive joke?if not then I humbly declare u heartless

R.I.P to ur sense of humour. Let's pls observe one minute silence for this guy
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by ayusco85(m): 4:11pm On Feb 20, 2015
holyokoto:


The will employ another person

B4 they do.......... U knw d rest
Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by kate3: 4:14pm On Feb 20, 2015
I WILL MAKE NIGERIA UNGOVERNABLE. FOOLISH MAN'S TALK. THEY ARE FAILURE. GOD IS BIGGER THAN THEM. THEY WILL ALL PERISH.

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by rabzy: 4:15pm On Feb 20, 2015
Boko haram's caliphate has always been in chad niger and cameroon. They prosecute a guerilla warfare here, attack and rob people on the highway, attack remote villages and kill indiscrinately and fiy their filthy flags for some few hours or days and then run into these countries when they are attacked.
They have sunk boreholes, employed staff to m$anage their holdings and also get cheap idiots to fight for them in neighboring countries.

Once those communities still exist and thriving we can't defeat them, anbd that is why chad Niger and cameroon needs to see the threat these bastards pose and finish them off. I pray this tempo is sustained by all involved.

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by Horus(m): 4:47pm On Feb 20, 2015
[size=19pt]Why France Backs Boko Haram [/size]

By Muhammad Hassan-Tom

One story that could only be brushed off at Nigeria’s peril was captioned “Don Raises Alarm over France’s Plan to invade Nigeria” published in the Vanguard of 15th February 2014. The report quoted Professor Olaghere, President of the United African Diaspora States (UADS) saying, “I want to use this platform to let Nigerians know that France is ready to come and invade Africa and Nigeria is the target. They are right now training Cameroon. France is fighting you and it is going to throw you out of your home and it is your duty to defend Nigeria at all costs.”

Professor Olaghere who gave the warning at a public lecture held at the National Women Centre, Abuja, further accused France of providing finance, equipment and training to the Boko Haram sect in a bid to continue with its destabilisation plot against Nigeria and Africa in general. According to him, “France has already deployed 60,000 troops to Africa, preparatory to invade the whole continent of Africa.” This figure would include soldiers stationed in all the Francophone countries for decades and the thousands added during the recent surge achieved by engineering brand new crises in Mali, Libya and the now balkanized Central African Republic.

In 2006, the French completed their takeover of Chad when their troops saved the neck of President Idris Deby after ferociously armed militia completely surrounded him inside the country’s capital in over 400 Hilux trucks mounted to the teeth. The mindless insurgency in Nigeria is of course being directly fuelled through the Algerian-Libyan-Malian-Nigerien terror trail, as the following news story will reveal.

The report entitled “Boko Haram’s anti-aircraft training camp uncovered in Niger” in the Punch of 19th February disclosed that 20 insurgents were arrested at a camp located in Diffa, just across the Nigerian border which specialized in training for the use of long-range anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons. According to the report, “Security personnel believe new arms were being acquired with ransom money.” It recalled that France paid a huge amount of money to secure the release of a French missionary, Father Georges Vandenbeusch abducted by Boko Haram near Nigeria’s border with Cameroun on 13th November 2013.

However, spokesman of the French Embassy in Niger Georges Vanin would not comment on the report that France had been paying ransom to secure release of its citizens. Last year, a French family of tourists was similarly captured at a game reserve inside Cameroun and released after undisclosed ransom was promptly paid. This seems such a foolproof way to funnel funding to terrorists but no art can ever launder blood-money. It is simply unbelievable that one of the longest running and most intense intelligence service in the world is being outwitted by the ragtag followers of a murdered Muhammad Yusuf who formed the Yusufiyya around 2002 to the point of terrorising their citizens! Why couldn’t Boko Haram kidnap any of the more friendly and rambunctious Americans? But even that could be arranged though.

A most fundamental question is: Since France failed to break-up Nigeria by supporting the Biafra rebels during the 1967-1970 civil war, how could it hope to succeed so many years after independence and generations of intermingling? The answer is that it comes well prepared and has been operating with silence and cynical diplomacy as strategy.

It cannot be coincidence that the systematic massacre of estimated 10,000 lives so far lost to thousands of bomb and gun attacks attributed to the Al-Qaida-clone started soon after Nigeria and France updated their relationship when President Jacques Chirac became the first foreign leader to visit Nigeria following the return of civil rule in 1999. President Umaru Yar’Adua visited France in 2008 and signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a ‘strategic partnership’ between the two countries.

Purportedly on the power of this partnership, Prime Minister Francois Fillon visited Nigeria in 2009 the same year Boko Haram declared its bombing war. One of the entries on this visit on the official website of the Embassy of France in Nigeria was that “At a time when the militants of MEND threatened to attack helicopters, the Prime Minister used this means of conveyance to visit some petroleum infrastructure in the vicinity of Port Harcourt.” He clearly did not use the same means to commiserate with hundreds of communities whose ancestral lands for farming and fishing are daily drenched in petrochemical poisons. If he had visited with the millions of impoverished, diseased and ill-educated youth literally railroaded into creeks by conscienceless leaders to resort to assassination, arson, cultism, kidnapping, fraud and militancy, it would have made sensible strategic partnership.

In a curiously similar scenario, on November 11 and 12 of the same year, the French minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Alain Juppe, visited Nigeria. The main entry on Juppe’s junket was that, “In a bid to show France’s support against violence of terrorism, the minister went to Kano, where he met local authorities and dialogued with students.” The minister also announced during that visit that, “We are ready to share our information. We are ready to coordinate our intelligence services. We are ready to give our help in training operation. I will like again to express our complete determination to fight with the countries of the region especially Nigeria and also in the ECOWAS borders to decrease these threats against the populations and the countries.”

Three months later almost to the day, Kano City recorded its single highest terrorism casualty of nearly 200 souls slain in a single day. What magic shield against MEND and Boko Haram terrorists were Fillon and Juppe displaying with these visits? Why is Nigeria not buying into the deal even if it is a fabricated one or does it all dovetail into some sectarian interest of President Goodluck Jonathan as seriously alleged in a letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo? As the Hausa proverb puts it, the monkey looks like man; terrorism in the Niger Delta is enabling the President’s people to pilfer their own oil while the one in the north is conveniently dealing with his perceived political opponents.

The red alert from all these, however, is that France’s Boko Haram bogeyman is as America’s Al-Qaida operating in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and lately Syria or the non-existent weapons of mass destruction that resulted in the occupation and ongoing dismemberment of Iraq. Both A-Qaida and Boko Haram are intelligence operations run by American and French secret agencies respectively to destabilize target countries and recreate colonialism all over again – if it had ever gone away.

This time, however, there is a need to divide the big nations into more controllable units hence the contrived cataclysmic conflicts right down Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. This fact explains the un-Islamic modus operandi of the supposedly Muslim militants who kill and maim indiscriminately including inside churches and mosques in order to provoke or stoke sectarian animosities and maximize intra and interreligious antagonism. It also clarifies how the erstwhile motorbike-riding Boko Haramists suddenly have better intelligence, transport, arms, ammunitions, secure internet/ICT to send all those terrifying messages and even higher morale than the Nigerian Armed Forces. In fact, the French Boko Haram is perfectly distinct from the Yusufiyya members who have always identified themselves as Jama’atu Ahlus lil Sunnah wal Jihad or Group for promoting the Prophet’s tradition and Struggle.

There is also a slight reconfiguration of the pecking order and hunting ground. With the US and its over 500,000 troops permanently stationed abroad too preoccupied with its de facto occupation of the Middle East and the South China Sea while Russia and China struggle to maintain their hegemony over their former communist cohorts in Eastern Europe and Latin America, Africa is the richest available colony albeit with too large a population. Britain and France being the remaining two superpowers are expected to contest for control of the continent.

However, the British are now so empire-weary that they would not even join the European Union and are even allowing the Scots to vote out of the United Kingdom. The islanders who once ruled a territorial domain on which the sun never sets have learnt their lessons about the toil of global hegemony. Unfortunately, they are increasingly becoming the choirboys and lapdogs of the USA in a bid to pick the crumbs from America’s bloody wars for domination of the conflict-soaked but resource-rich Middle East.

This leaves the African stage almost exclusively for France hence its rapid generation and inflammation of conflicts and troop surges across the continent. Tellingly, the French have simultaneously set the most ambitious economic goals on record. On a recent visit to Nigeria, Ms Nicole Bricq, France’s Minister of Foreign Trade attended the signing of a Strategic Agreement between Schneider Electric and Mikano International Limited. Schneider is the leading French company in the field of electricity and renewable energy in Nigeria with a turnover of $100 million per annum. She announced that there are 1800 French firms exporting finished goods to Nigeria and France has set a target to gain a 50 per cent increase. The reason, she ominously stated, was that “If you are not in Nigeria, you are not in Africa.”

Yet, from 1902 when the Compagnie Francaise de l’Afrique Occidentale (CFAO) was established in Nigeria, there are now over 100 French companies “in” the country mainly engaged in exploitation of hydrocarbons, agricultural resources and communication facilities. Famous French brands include Total, Peugeot, Lafarge as well as Alcatel and Sagem which were instrumental in the setting up of GSM telephony and the National Identity Card. Others such as Michelin in Port-Harcourt produces unprocessed rubber from its rubber plantations and exports tires at exorbitant costs. Over this past century, the balance of trade remains heavily tilted in favour of France. In 2006, French companies exported $3.2 billion worth of goods to Nigeria but imported just $1.9 billion of the country’s petroleum products and $49 million of raw materials such as rubber and cocoa. Similarly, about 4500 French firms supply the basic needs of all Francophone African countries from apparels to cosmetics and even currency notes.

While the French desperation to corner more of Africa’s abundant resources at the cost of lives and livelihoods is attaining new heights, the callous, racist and selfish trend is not new or unexpected. For instance, a 2008 paper titled Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Arena: A Historical Perspective of Nigeria-France Relations, 1905-1985 by O. Ekanade published by African Journals Online concluded that “The historical landmarks in their diplomatic ties are suggestive of the iron laws that govern international relations. These laws favour the strong and sanction the weak. France’s pre-eminent status in the international arena during this period, 1905-1985 dwarfed Nigeria’s voice and actions and ensured that Nigeria pandered to the whims and caprices of France.”

The PhD thesis titled Franco-Nigerian Business Relations: The Emergence of International Social and Commercial Configurations, Exchange, Uncertainty and Identity Strategy submitted to the University of Paris-Diderot by Marjolaine Paris provides greater details about the negative nature of French interaction with Nigerians over the past century. In it, Ms Paris established among other things that, “Inequality in the extension of privileges, social benefits, official treatments at the level of French expatriates, on the one hand, and their Nigerian counterparts, on the other, is another problem. It is at this level of where an expatriate comes from (ethnic factor), status of the expatriate, superiority/inferiority questions that breed untold animosities among Franco-Nigerian economic operators.”

According to her, the problem is that the French businesses, like many others, are only interested in money making but not much in the welfare or solving the domestic problems of the host community. This is an issue that Government is yet to meaningfully address in its economic calculations. This is also why there has been frequent tension between the petroleum-producing communities and oil giants in Nigeria. The oil companies are yet to reckon with the need to factor social development of their host communities as part of their business objectives. She therefore posited that “It is no longer sufficient to reckon with the obligations created by business contracts signed. In fact, future business contracts should specifically provide for social development of host communities.”

The Nigerian government and indeed all African countries under the aegis of the African Union (AU) can and must checkmate France’s current insidious influence in the country and on the continent. The first step is Nigeria should demand the immediate cessation of French backing for Boko Haram, MEND and all other insurgents working in or against the country and an undertaking that France will pay compensation for every life and limb lost to their terrorists, restore the tens of thousands of homes and social facilities destroyed and provide scholarships for all school-age out-of-school children in the frontline states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa and across the Niger-Delta.

Secondly, the AU should pass an immediate resolution to send away all the 60,000 so-called French peacekeepers and other military personnel since African troops in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere have proved capable of doing a sincere job at a fraction of the cost. This is the only way to eliminate the current high tension in African-French relations in the long run and also engender accommodation and mutual respect between the two parties.

The third step is for Nigeria and Africa as a whole to review all existing political pacts and economic agreements with France and French firms to enable rapid industrialization and sorely needed employment generation in the world’s poorest but most endowed continent. Under the revised rules of engagement, these companies and other multinationals should no longer be permitted to exploit and export raw materials but to create a value-chain by fully processing these resources to end-products in industries in Nigeria or elsewhere in Africa. Politically, the French Intelligentsia value human liberty and democracy but just for themselves. France was the first country in the world to sponsor a coup against democracy when it propped up military regimes following the annulment of Algeria’s elections which brought the FIS to power in 1991. The 150,000 Algerians killed in subsequent protests is only a fraction of the one million lives Algeria lost in its war of independence from France.

Finally, failing any of these, Nigeria should break off relations with France. In 1961, when Nigeria broke off relations with the country over its devastating atomic weapons tests in the Sahara desert in neighbouring Niger Republic, it not only ended such crimes against humanity on African soil but inspired the whole continent. The incumbent President Francois Hollande of France is going ahead with the machinations in spite of the disclosures but he would have to compromise a whole lot more Nigerians than the diminishing drug-driven maniacal death squad codenamed Boko Haram. Too, following Professor Olaghere’s public revelations, Hollande and his horde including our own French connections may expect the tens of thousands murdered, orphaned, widowed, maimed, bereaved, displaced, dispossessed or even those just distressed by the news from afar to ask the Almighty God for justice.

Worse still, they are putting their beautiful country and its mostly kind-hearted and poetic people at risk of meeting a fate more humiliating than Nazi Germany suffered in 1945. Weakened by excessive wining, dining and hedonism the aging French population cannot even hope to recover as swiftly and as superbly as the Germans did over the past 55 years. However, if the international community fails to impede and bring them to justice here and now, they will surely pay Hereafter.

The outlook for Africa is also not too good as at now. The Nigerian tragedy is that if we keep careless, compromised and compromising leaders rather than courageous, fair and just ones, the French conspiracy against our country and the entire continent is halfway achieved. In fact, this is not even an era for clueless, incompetent or inexperienced hands at any level of government. As Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State recently said after his second but last meeting with President Jonathan: “This is war!”

By Muhammad Hassan-Tom

Source: http://leadership.ng/opinions/354105/france-backs-boko-haram-1

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by lookingfly: 4:50pm On Feb 20, 2015
seunfly:


It is only a fool that will believe APC has anything to do with Bokoharam after all the evidence on ground.

I believe one of the major mistakes this administration made was trying to gain some political symperthy with the security issue rather accept has a duty to solve the problem.
will you shut ur mouth there?i thought you apc supporters have countlessly said BH is sponsored by gej and the federal government.and am sure gej is now proving you critics wrong that he is not clueless.pls gmb,where is ur certificate?

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Re: Tension Between France & Cameroun Over Captured French Boko Haram Fighters by enomakos(m): 5:03pm On Feb 20, 2015
kill those french motherfucker

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